Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-11
MINNESOTA

and most likely but three, nquor licenses VIII
be applied for under the $500 license law.
There are eight now paying $40 license and
one paying $50 beer license.
The residence Of O.. VI. Edsil, OF Troy
township, Pipestone county, took fire during
a high wind last week, which communicated
the flames to his barn, and in twenty minutes
there was nothing left but a heap OF smoking
ruins.
Elizabeth, widow Of Aaron Wrigley, died
last week at the rcsid nee OF her son, Edwin
Wrigley, in Sugar Loaf valley, Waba.hA
county, aged eighty eight years. Mrs. Wrig-
ley and family settled in the township where
she died In 1855.
Mrs. Fillmore, Of Fair Point, Goodhue ceun-
ty, was burning brush near home last week
when her clothes 10 * fire while endeavoring
to keep the blaze from a roc pile. Her
limbs were burned to q crisp and she soon ex-
pred. She ia - years of age.
The will of til late Commodore Davidson,
IF st. Paul, bequeaths all OF his property,
amounting to ahout 5000, coo, to his wife
hnd two children and makes the stipulation
t at the executors nominated by himself be
uot required t. give bonds for the faithful
performance Of tueir duty.
Joseph Aiken, one OF the old time residents
OF Red Wing, died last week Of old age. He
had lived In the city for twenty-seven years
End was eighty ears Of age. He leaves three
children, Mauric, and John at Denver, Colo,
proprietors Of he Rocky Mountain Daily
Naws and q tEi &, c. o,js
The extension OF the Cannon Valley road
10 Mankato Is ror completed, and trains will
oesin running through 10 that place next
week. The Du.uth Red Wing and Southern
surveyors have Completed the survey Of the
route to Roche,ier from Zumbrota, and have
found an easy grade, from curves, forty eight
miles in length. They are now at work be-
tween Rochester and Austin.
a terrible acc dent occurred at st. Martin
Saturday. Chas. Rausch and Mich Mott were
returning home frsm that village with Their
teams, and on the way commenced racing.
Ran>ch's team ran into Motifs wagon, upset
tirg he same, the former's team falling onto
the wagon and Mott, who was trying TO get
away. The horses stepped all over him,
smas ing his face, breaking his arm, several
ribs, one Of which penetrated his skin, and
ether wise Injured him to such an extent that
his r, covery is impossible.
W. T. King, Of Ottawa, Canals, chief OF
survr $, and O. J. Klotz, of Preston, ont ir
char. - OF the astronomical work for tn. do
mtnion government, visited Carleton ob.erva.
tory Tar q conference as to proposed scientific
work in the interest Of the Canadian govern
ment. They were very much pleased with the
new building, aud think th.tfor completeness
OF arrangement and adaptotion 70 work de.
signed, its apartments are equal To those Of
any observatory in the United States.
During the absence Of 3 family, a miscreas,
entered Conductor s. n. Chase's residence AT
Hastings and took ti'erefrom a gold and sill
yer watch, besides a quantity of valuable
jewelry and a fey pieces of underclothes
He made good his escape a, far as the levec
bat was ovcrhauled by two young men who
turned him over TO sheriff lIugd Connolly.
Upon being arraigned ia the police court he
gave his name as James Burk, waived exam
ination and was bound over to the next term
Of the district court TO await the action Of the |
grand jury.
Morton * Co, a leading wheat shipping
firm Of Fargo, Dakota, received a dispatch
from the general northwestern freight agent
of the Milwaukee road AT Chicago, not 10
ship any more wheat TO that city as a syndi.
cate OF spectators had bought up all the ele-
vator room aud no more grsln from the north !
west could be taken. Morton 4 Go. sent an
indignant response 10 the president Of the
Chicago board Of trade advising Chicago, if
the report was true, to resign list pretensions
as a wheat market and rival Baden Baden as
a gambling resort.
ID. Hartigan, OF Tracy, has been victim
lied TO the aIlount Of 81, 900. A stranger
named Powell came along and proposed 10
start a bank. The organization was effcted
and the concern started. though Powell put
In no capital 10 sreak of. He then issued a
Of deposit TO an alleged brother at
Tracy for 81 ,0G0. The brother went east and
had the certificate cashed by a bank in New
York. Before cashing the certificate the New
York parties tc.egraphed TO Powell at Tracy
ohN iNNNA'Nb bhC icpiy lbut Llt ulcHtN WAS On
Having worked his deep-laid plan
skipped out Of Tracy as soon as he had
finished his part in assisting his brother to
have the bogus certificate cashed. Hartigan
Is liable under the act of incorporation.
News was received at Hutchinson on Sstur-
day that while the Sheppard boys were bath
ing In Lake Preston, fourteen miles
west from here, they caught the body
Of q man in a badly bloated condition and so
.iisfgIred as to be past all identity, hut there
we're such marks as TO lead to the supposition
hat the head was crushed before the body
vas placed in the water. It is also rumored
hat 1t is the body OF Dave Toplin, a well.
person Of considerable means, who has
not been seen around home the past week.
a little interest is displayed in the mys-
cry.
Fergus Falls special May %: A most hor-
murder was committed In the tow nship
II st. Olaf yesterday, twenty miles from here.
lille Field, a seventeen year old daughter Of
Mrs. A. w. Field, was found In a hog pen
With her throat cut. The incision extended
rom her throat lengthwise, di~semboweling
Ter. Mrs. Field and son came to Fergus Falls
.lrlr Yesterday mnrrtnu laaripu | ilio ana